Cacti vs Zabbix

Developers and system administrators should learn Cacti when they need to monitor network bandwidth, server performance (e meets developers should learn zabbix when working in devops, sre, or system administration roles to monitor production environments, detect anomalies, and automate incident responses. Here's our take.

Cacti

Nice Pick

Developers and system administrators should learn Cacti when they need to monitor network bandwidth, server performance (e

Pros

• g
• Related to: snmp, rrdtool

Cons

• Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case

Zabbix

Developers should learn Zabbix when working in DevOps, SRE, or system administration roles to monitor production environments, detect anomalies, and automate incident responses

Pros

• It is particularly useful for large-scale distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and applications requiring high availability, as it supports agent-based and agentless monitoring, custom metrics, and integrations with tools like Slack or PagerDuty
• Related to: devops, system-monitoring

Cons

• Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case

The Verdict

Use Cacti if: You want g and can live with specific tradeoffs depend on your use case.

Use Zabbix if: You prioritize it is particularly useful for large-scale distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and applications requiring high availability, as it supports agent-based and agentless monitoring, custom metrics, and integrations with tools like slack or pagerduty over what Cacti offers.

The Bottom Line

Cacti wins

Developers and system administrators should learn Cacti when they need to monitor network bandwidth, server performance (e